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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Retail Price: $15.00
Pages: 128
The man was stubborn', writes Calvin Trillin - the second most stubborn member of the Trillin family - to begin his fond, wry, and affecting memoir of his father. Abe Trillin had the western Missouri accent of someone who had grown up in St. Joseph and the dreams of America of someone who had been born is Russia. In Kansas City, he was a grocer, at least until he swore off the grocery business. He was given to swearing off things - coffee, tobacco, alcohol, all neckties that were not yellow in color. Presu